- Yesterday, I mentioned a line from an old science teacher:
"If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist."
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- In what passes for corporate journalism in American,
this concept has taken the form of, "If we don't report on it, it
didn't happen."
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- That certainly was the case for the emergency protest
organized by a coalition of anti-war organizations under the banner EndUSWars.org,
which saw over 1000 people gather on short notice in the bitter cold on
Lafayette Park opposite the White House to protest President Obama's escalation
of the war in Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 12.
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- Not a word about this impromptu protest, which included
many people who had supported the election of President Obama only a year
ago, appeared in the New York Times. Nor did the Washington Post bother
to mention the protest in its own back yard, not even in its Metro section
pages. The other arguably national newspaper, USA Today, likewise blacked
out news of the protest...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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